Monday 3 January: Snow Day! Work on rhetorical analysis; hot seat for rhetorical analysis opens; see sign-up sheet or email me to Zoom
Tuesday 4 January: Snow Day Wednesday 5 January: Snow Half Day Thursday 6 January: Allison gives a presentation on "The Custom House"; Approaches to The Scarlet Letter in-class exercise; for your reference, here is the winter reading guide distributed in December Friday 7 January: Approaches write-up due; No class: first Friday Mass Monday 10 January: Scarlet Letter In-Class Writing; Materials for midterm synthesis and rhetorical analysis distributed: excerpts from "Self Reliance" and "Nature," "Thanatopsis," excerpt from Walden; HW: prepare for Harkness (graded) on materials, including role of nature in The Scarlet Letter; here is packet Tuesday 11 January: Midterm overview (synthesis and rhetorical analysis); Harkness to get the ball rolling on ideas for midterm prompts Wednesday 12 January: AP-style Synthesis practice in class Here are some student samples of rhetorical analysis; some are for assignments different from ours, so these are not models, per se, but for inspiration: here (Adichie) and here (Bloom) and here (sugar). Here is a screencast from 2020 (when I was making screencasts to prep students for the exam, at the end of the course) that goes over rhetorical analysis; it's appropriate as you prep for the midterm. This second one provides nice review of the assignment sheet as you finalize your own rhetorical analysis essay this week. Thursday 13 January: Hot seat for rhetorical analysis closes; AP-style Synthesis practice in class; here is synthesis rubric Friday 14 January: Rhetorical Analysis paper due; AP-style Rhetorical analysis practice in class Midterms Comments are closed.
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